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Title

  • Dinosaur comics

Summary

  • This dataset was generated from content harvested from the Library of Congress's web archive of qwantz.com (Dinosaur Comics!): https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0009953/ It includes minimal metadata about 3,325 image objects from the Dinosaur Comics! web archive as well as the files themselves. This dataset was created as apart of exploratory work done by the Library of Congress's Web Archiving Team. README file
  • This dataset includes: lcwa_dinosaurcomics_image_data.zip compressed bag containing the 3,325 files from the "qwantz" domain containing "image" in their media type from the archive, as well as manifest files with SHA-256 and SHA-512 checksums. The structure of the content follows the structure of the BagIt specification. -- lcwa_dinosaurcomics_image_metadata.csv a CSV containing metadata derived from the CDX line entry for each image file as well as information derived from archived instance; e.g., the Comic ID taken from the URL query string and the Comic Title taken from the "title" attribute in the HTML image tag. The fields and their contents are described in the "Dataset Field Descriptions" section.

Names

  • North, Ryan, 1980- author
  • Library of Congress Web Archiving Program, compiler

Created / Published

  • Washington DC, Library of Congress Web Archiving Team, 2019.

Headings

  • -  Webcomics

Genre

  • Data sets
  • Cartoons (Humor)

Notes

  • -  "Dataset originally created 08/30/2019."--README file
  • -  Title from website home page (viewed May 1, 2020)

Medium

  • Online resource (datasets)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PN6728.D545

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019667235

Online Format

  • compressed data

Additional Metadata Formats

Rights & Access

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Digital Collections Management and Services Division

Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

North, Ryan, Author. Dinosaur Comics. composeds by Library Of Congress Web Archiving Programiler Washington DC, Library of Congress Web Archiving Team, 2019. Software, E-Resource. https://www.loc.gov/item/2019667235/.

APA citation style:

North, R. (2019) Dinosaur Comics. Library Of Congress Web Archiving Programiler, comp Washington DC, Library of Congress Web Archiving Team. [Software, E-Resource] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2019667235/.

MLA citation style:

North, Ryan, Author. Dinosaur Comics. comp by Library Of Congress Web Archiving Programiler Washington DC, Library of Congress Web Archiving Team, 2019. Software, E-Resource. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2019667235/>.